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Claude Opus 5.5

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  1. sharkjacobs · · focus · HN ↗
    > “Verbose, hard-to-follow output has been my biggest frustration with frontier models, and Claude Opus 5.5 fixes it

    God I hope so

    1. drbscl · · focus · HN ↗
      So did I. Unfortunately it&#x27;s even more verbose according to <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;artificialanalysis.ai&#x2F;models&#x2F;claude-opus-5-5#token-use" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;artificialanalysis.ai&#x2F;models&#x2F;claude-opus-5-5#token-u...
      1. Trasmatta · · focus · HN ↗
        The problem with 5 wasn&#x27;t just the verbosity, but its insane way of communicating. It had this bizarre circuitous sentence structure that always buried the lede, and always tried to be faux profound. I&#x27;m okay with verbosity if it&#x27;s actually readable.
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